Trump administration insiders are furious over reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, will no longer classify the swastika as a symbol of "hate."According to the Washington Post, the branch of military service has decided that swastikas and nooses ...
  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Can you give a source on that or a general direction on where to look? I’ve heard about the tattoo and looked into it during the initial controversy and did not find that information at the time.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      I must’ve misread. He actually says the marines rejected him for having visible tattoos on his arm, not the actual skull tattoo.

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        If you know about MARADMIN, can you elaborate on what he means? I looked it up and understand it as a kind of code of conduct, but don’t see what changed in 2007, just that he said a USMC based tattoo was what prevented him.

          • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Thank you for this. I gave it a good (confusing) read, they could stand to type in less capitals.

            I can see the regulations outlined, but not that he was turned away for it being a known nazi symbol or anything based on that description, it sounds like he got a tattoo without clearing it or reporting it on his paperwork and chose not to appeal, based on his words there in the reddit post.

            I appreciate you finding that for me, it was hard to parse all the google garbage

          • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 days ago

            Thanks anyway! Yeah military jargon and acronyms out the ass go hand in hand and any manager that’s a vet I’ve worked for just tosses them around like ‘sentence enhancers’.